This is most likely a Troy or Connie question but thought I'd post
here in case others might have the same question burning in the
back of their brains.

Is there much, if any, difference between upgrading from one minor
release to another (say, SL44 to SL46) using the rpm command as
stated in the instructions in the HowTo here:
  (https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.4x)
and just doing a 'yum upgrade; yum clean all; yum update' ?

It seems that the 'yum upgrade' grabbed the yum-conf-4x.noarch 4:1-5.SL
and replaced the yum-conf.noarch 4:44-1.SL, which is what I assume
the lonnng rpm command would do?

Thanks!
- Larry
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